Posted on 10/03/2005 12:05:19 PM PDT by ARCADIA
I’d like to take a moment to coin a new phrase: Brownie Moment. A Brownie moment can be defined simply as the moment when a supporter of President Bush is smacked in the head by reality and loses any and all faith in the president from that moment forward. As you may have surmised the term comes from Bush’s recent comment regarding former FEMA head Michael Brown’s leadership in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, “Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.”
This was my Brownie moment. I understand that in the world of politics leaders often have to say things they don’t mean, or shake hands with dictators and scumbags, and do a lot of morally repugnant stuff. But when Bush said that I realized that after surveying the impotent, incompetent response of the federal government he truly, honestly believed that Brownie was doing a heck of a job. That sealed it for me. I’d been turning sour on Bush for a while, but I was still generally supportive of him. When I heard him make that remark, however, that was it. That was my Brownie moment.
I bring this up in light of the Miers nomination. There are a whole lot of head-scratching Republicans gazing at each other wondering what the hell just happened. Could Bush really have nominated this woman to the Supreme Court? Yes, my friends, he just did. I imagine there are a whole lot of conservatives out there today who have just had their very own Brownie moment.
This is not to say that having had a Brownie moment the lack of faith in Bush is irreversible. Far from it. If Bush were to straighten up, get his act together, and really make an effort at becoming the president he was in the first three years of his first term then I would in all likelihood get firmly behind him again. But in the wake of the deteriorating situation in Iraq, his political impotence at implementing his agenda, the profligate expansion of government under his watch, and his failure to veto a single bill during five years in office, the Brownie comment was just too much.
That was my Brownie moment. And there’s a whole country full of gobsmacked Republicans who just had theirs this morning.
My "Brownie Moment" came when I realized that federal budget is completely out of whack. And, I don't think the President has any concrete plans to address that.
Somehow I just don't see myself voting for Hillary in '08, though.
So are you going to sit out future elections or vote for democrats? Curious Minds wish to know.
From what I have seen, Chertoff is the primary reason the FEMA response was slowed. Brownie was all over it.
So maybe a "Brownie Moment" should be defined as a situation where you buy the MSM spin on a story...
I would define the term as this: The moment in time when a democratic misinformation and factual distortion plan becomes so successful that an otherwise acceptable Republican appointed official is abandoned by the party leaders. See also: "borked"
My "Brownie Moment" was when the pro-illegal Gonzales was tapped to head DoJ.
My mantra for the last election....'neither nor in '04'
next election..'who ya gonna hate in '08?'
now that you know that NO was not as bad as Raging Nagin said, but that it kept many from sending help, what would you have done if you had been Brownie? Everyone who has been a volunteer and has gone some place that is less than the safest place in town know what it is like to have "older volunteers" at the mercy of young punks. Was Bush wrong when he said Brownie was doing a good job? If you had handled 150 disasters don't you think you might have been given more than 5 days to figure out the solutions to the biggest event in the last 50 years?
Me neither. Can't the Dems run someone who doesn't make my skin crawl.
No, I'm deeply disappointed in Bush. I really don't like the brazen cronyism, the cavalier attitude towards the deficit and his indifference to his base.
He dumb like a fox...I hope.
I can't believe he would purposely thumb his nose at the conservative base.
Wow, how profound. Now, for the real kicker, show us the part of the constitution that gives him the power to "fix" the budget.
That's not really my issue, but that appt sure was a contradiction.
Then why did he ask Brownie to resign, instead of backing up his subordinate. What you are suggesting is even worse!
Because he doesn't need them anymore, he can't run for reelection. I don't like what this says about the man.
It's called a "Veto" in the constitution.
I may do something I've never done before: Sit out the next election or five.
Well, personally every time I consider having a "Brownie Moment" I think of President John Francois Kerry and just kinda shudder it off...
He can submit a more modest budget, or reluctantly agree to raise taxes. But, this requires making tough decisions, it's so much easier to let go on.
No, Vetos don't fix. The Congress can enact legislation (including budgets) without the President, on the other had the President can not do squat without the Congress.
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